LOS ANGELES (AP) - “Thor: Ragnarok” topped the box office again in its second weekend, adding $57.1 million from North American theaters. The superhero sequel, the third in the franchise, has grossed $212.1 million domestically to date.

It beat out newcomers like the comedy sequel “Daddy’s Home 2,” which opened in second with a solid $29.7 million, and Kenneth Branagh’s lush adaptation of Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express,” which debuted in third with $28.7 million.

In fourth place was “A Bad Moms Christmas” with $11.5 million that bumps up its domestic total to $39.8 million, and in fifth was the horror pic “Jigsaw,” in its third week in theaters, which took in $3.4 million.

Among smaller releases, the coming-of-age pic “Lady Bird” cracked the top 10 in its expansion to only 37 theaters. The Greta Gerwig-directed film earned $1.2 million.

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by comScore:

Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by 21st Century Fox; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.

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